A major controversy broke out on Wednesday over Rahul Gandhi's visit to Somnath temple with the BJP questioning his faith, while the Congress hit back accusing the BJP of playing dirty politics and maintained he was a "devout Hindu"....
The Election Commission will get 40 lakh VVPAT machines and EVMs by September 2018 for use in the 2019 general elections, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) A.K. Joti said on Wednesday. The VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) machine attached to an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) generates a paper slip with the name of candidat...
China on Wednesday said that it was seriously concerned about and opposed to North Korea's test-firing of a newly-developed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). "China strongly demands the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) abide by the UN Security Council resolutions and refrain from actions that heighten the tension on t...
Pope Francis on Wednesday urged Myanmar's ethnic minorities to resist the temptation to exact revenge for hatred and rejection, preaching a message of forgiveness in a historic mass to 150,000 worshippers in the predominantly Buddhist country. The pontiff's first visit to Myanmar, and the first ever by a sitting Pope, comes amid...
BSF Director General K.K. Sharma on Wednesday said Pakistan has not stopped its infiltration bids into Jammu and Kashmir, and added that routes used by militants have been identified and the BSF is ready to tackle future attempts. He also said the neighbouring country was making repeated ceasefire violations despite both issues bei...
Senior Communist Party of India (CPI) leader and former Kerala Minister E. Chandrasekharan Nair passed away on Wednesday. He was 88. According to the party, he was suffering from age-related illness and breathed his last at a hospital here. He was to have turned 89 on Saturday. A lawyer by profession, Nair is survived by his wife, a son and ...
Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf has said he is the "biggest supporter" of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and expressed his liking for its founder Hafiz Saeed, blamed for the horrific 2008 Mumbai terror attack. "I am the biggest supporter of LeT and I know they like me and JuD (Jamaat-ud-Dawa) also likes me," Musharraf to...
Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf has said he is the "biggest supporter" of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and expressed his liking for its founder Hafiz Saeed, blamed for the horrific 2008 Mumbai terror attack. "I am the biggest supporter of LeT and I know they like me and JuD (Jamaat-ud-Dawa) also likes me," Musharraf to...
The Border Security Force (BSF) said on Wednesday it seized over 10,000 kg of narcotics between December 1, 2016 and October 31 this year. "The BSF seized 10,247.119 kg of narcotics on the western and eastern borders" during this period, BSF Director General K.K. Sharma said on the occasion of the BSF Raising Day. Of this, 9,807 kg was seized...
Pandemonium prevailed for the second consecutive day inside the Odisha Assembly as both opposition and ruling party members created ruckus over farmers issue on Wednesday. Unable to run the House smoothly, Speaker Pradip Amat adjourned the House till 3 p.m. As soon as the House assembled for the day, Congress and BJP members went ne...
